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Both Starbucks and Jamba Juice are now offering a SLEW of healthy food
choices. And not just breakfast foods, either. There are salads, flatbreads,
wraps, and more. Check out what's worth it and what's not...

This parfait ROCKS! It has creamy fat-free cherry yogurt, real sweet dark
cherries, and almond-coconut granola (in its own cute little container). The
taste and texture are great. The best part is how the crunchy granola tastes
like the "toasted almond" coating on those Good Humor ice cream bars we
ate (and loved!) as kids. This is a terrific grab & go breakfast/brunch option
from The 'Bucks. Yum! (Heads up! 320 calories may be a tad high for a
snack, so we recommend this as a meal or mini meal.)

Wow is this thing delicious!!! It's crispy, buttery-tasting, light, marshmallowy,
and completely yummy! It doesn't have fiber or any real nutritional value to
speak of, but you can certainly do a lot worse when it comes to indulgent
snacking. So during a sweets-craving moment, grab this and an iced coffee
(with some nonfat milk and no-calorie sweetener!), and you've got yourself a
satisfying 230-calorie-or-so snack. WE LOVE THIS!!!

This muffin tastes like winter holidays. It really does. But quite honestly, it's
not worth 350 calories. Think about it: You could have three and a half
VitaTops (or three and a half of the small VitaMuffins) or this ONE muffin.
We'd opt for the Vitas every time. It's not that this is a bad muffin. In fact, it
tastes pretty nice, especially if you like cinnamon and clove. But it's not large
or filling enough to work its way into our lives. Sorry, Apple Bran Muffin with
Omega-3s!

Nice work here, Starbucks. Thanks for a creative (and fairly large!) salad,
complete with dressing on the side. People, if you like blue cheese crumbles,
dried cranberries, and apples, you'll dig this. But it's not really satisfying
enough to be eaten as a full meal. In a perfect world, every Starbucks would
also sell 4-oz. skinless chicken breasts right in its little food case -- add one
of those, and this would be the perfect lunch. For now, you may have to eat
it along with a little something else. Or skip the dressing and consider it a
snack.

These so-called "Flatbreads" should be called "Puff Pizzas," because that's
pretty much what they are. But the biggest issue we have with these things is
that they're super-teeny-tiny! There are four varieties: Tomo Artichoko,
Smokehouse Chicken, MediterraneYUM, and Four Cheesy. They all taste
pretty decent/borderline good, but they're WAY too high in calories for their
size. To improve these, the Jamba crew would have to flatten out the bread
and make 'em bigger and a little crispier. But for now, we're not going to be
partaking in these Flatbreads.

Everyone here agrees that this sandwich tastes FANTASTIC! The focaccia
bread is AWESOME (as long as you like rosemary) and the turkey is fresh.
With all that flavor, there's really no need for dressing or sauce. It's a great
size and worth the 400-calorie+ price tag. But an extra 150 calories and 14g
fat for dijonnaise is WAY too much, so definitely ditch that stuff immediately.
Again, this one got "yums up" pretty much across the board -- but could its
super-Hungry-Girl-ish name be coloring our opinions?!

Okay, this wrap (along with the others) is deceptively packaged to look WAY
bigger than it actually is. It's a nice size, but the center section of the
package, which is conveniently covered by a label, holds the sauce and not
more of the actual wrap! Hard to explain here, but you'd understand if you
saw it. All in all, this one is pretty good. But without the sauce, it's sorta dull;
and with it, it's sorta fattening. A dilemma! The solution? Skip it!

HG Bottom Line: Not really worth it... but not horrendous, in a pinch.

Hmmmm... The stats aren't bad and the chicken's nice and fresh, but there's
little to nothing that makes this wrap "Asian." We'd take it and spritz some
Newman's Own Asian Sesame spray dressing on it. But is it really worth the
effort? Uhhh... probably not.

HG Bottom Line: Only worth it if there are no other reasonable choices
around.

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